The bar chart compares the figure of students by gender and type of education who studied in continuing education in Britain in the period between 1970 and 1991 .
Overall ,there was a higher proportion of women than men studying full -time and part-time in all periods except the first period.
In detail, As we can see the number of part time male students showed a significant increase in the first period withe 1000 thousand students compared with full time students with just under 200 thousand students . In the following period the amount of part time students decreased slightly to be approximately 850 thousand students while , full time students a has slow increase with around 200 thousand students.In the period 1990/91 the figure of students in both type of education increased gradually by almost 100 thousand compared with the previous year.
In terms of women who studied in all periods , it’s clear that there was a gradual increase of their amount . Starting with the first period with just over 600 thousand part time students and just under 200 thousand full time students. In the period 1980/81 the number of women showed a slight growth on both type of education . However, the last period experienced a repid increase in the number of women with over 1000 thousand part time students and around 250 thousand full time students.